Animal-shackle.



No. 683,770. Patented Uc t. I, 1901.

T. E. JONES.

ANIMAL SHACKLE.

(Application filed Mar. 21, 1901.)

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T. E. JONES.

ANIMAL SHACKLE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS E. JONES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ANIMAL- SHACKLE.

SEEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,770, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed March 21, 1901. Serial No. 52,209. (No model.)

the stem 2 and is designed to be received into T aZZ whom, it may concern: the socket of the handle, the base or back of Be it known that I, THOMAS E. JONES, acitithe socket forming a stop for engagement zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, with the tubular shank, and thereby limiting in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, the'movement of the head inwardly upon the 5 have invented a new and useful Animalhandle. The outer end of the head is pro- Shackle, of which the following is a specifivided with a bifurcated fixed jaw 6, which is cation. in the form of a curved hook. The inner This invention relates to shackles, and has side of the head next to the jaw is provided for its objects to provide an improved device with a longitudinal slot 7, into which is pro- 10 of this class which is especially designed for jected the inner end of a movable hookcatching and holding hogs and similar anishaped jaw 8, which is arranged reverselyto mals. It is furthermore designed to arrange the fixed jaw and designed to have its outer for facilitating the manipulation of the defree end work in the bifurcation of the fixed vice by providing for an automatic locking jaw. This movable jaw is mounted inter- 15 of the device when applied to an animal and mediate of its ends upon a transverse pivotalso to facilitate the release of the shackle. pin 9, which extends across the slotted por- WVith these and other objects in view the tion of the head and has its inner end enpresent invention consists in the combination larged, as at 10, and projected into a transand arrangement of parts, as will be hereinverse opening 11, so that by reciprocating 20 after more fully described, shown in the the shank or stem 2 the movable jaw may be accompanying drawings, and particularly swung upon its intermediate pivot to throw pointed out in the appended claims, it being the free end of thejawintoandout ofthe bifurunderstood that changes in the form, proporcation of the fixed jaw. The outer arm or tion, size, and minor details may be made portion of the movable jaw cooperates with 25 within the scope of the claims without dethe fixed jaw, and the inner portion or arm parting from the spirit or sacrificing any of extendsinto the tubularshank. It will be obthe advantages of the invention. served that the outer end 12 of the slot in In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective which the movable jaw works forms a stop view of the shackle constructed in accordfor engagement by the enlarged inner end of 3o ance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a the jaw, so as to limit the outward move longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 ment of the steni 2, and thereby prevent sepis a detail'sectional view taken through the aration of the stem and the movable jaw. adjustable connection between the handle The opening in the stem extends entirely and the slidable head of the device. Fig. 4c through the same, and the back part of the 3 5 is a view showing a pair of shackles employed tubular shank is provided with a recess or for suspending an animal. socket 13 in transverse alinement with the Like characters of reference designate corpivot-pin 9, so as to prevent the inner end of responding parts in all of the figures of the the jaw binding upon the shank should it drawings. project at the opposite side of the stem. 0 40 In carrying out the present invention there To interlock the handle and the relativelyis provided a handle 1, having a longitudifixed jaw from being pushed inwardly upon nal stem or shank 2 projected at one end each other, there is provided a ratchet-dog thereof and a sleeve 3, embracing the base 14, fulcrumed intermediate of its ends upon portion of the shank and spaced a suitable the handle and having its forward end .bent 5 distance therefrom, so as to form an annular inwardly, so as to lie across the inner end of socket or recess about the base of the shank. the handle and engage the ratchet-teeth 15 Thesepartsare preferablyformed integral, as upon the exterior of the tubular shank 5, indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. there being a suitable spring 16 interposed A slidable head 4 is provided with a tububetween the opposite outer end of the dog ICO 5o lar shank portion 5, which slidably embraces and the handle, so as to yieldingly hold the dog in engagement with the ratchet-teeth.

These teeth are disposed so as to look the members against inward movement, but permit of the handle being drawn quickly outward to throw the free end of the movable aw into the bifurcation of the relativelyfixed jaw.

In the manipulation of the device the hand le is first thrust inwardly to its innermost limit, so as to open the pivotal jaw to its outer limit, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, thereby providing a lateral entranceopening between the extremities of the two aws. The device is then manipulated so as to receive the leg of an animal laterally through the entrance-opening between the two jaws, and the handle is then quickly drawn outwardly, whereby the fixed jaw is held relatively fixed by the leg of the animal, and the movable jaw is swung inwardly into the bifurcation of the fixed jaw, whereby both jaws of the shackle snugly embrace the leg, and the greater the strain upon the device the tighter the'movable jaw is forced toward the fixed jaw. It will now be apparent that the ratchet locking device that holds the members from mutual inward movement prevents the movable jaw from being swung'away from the fixed jaw, and thus effectively locks the shackle. To release the device, it is merely necessary to release the ratchet and push the handle inwardly upon the tubular shank, thereby swinging the movable jaw away from the fixed jaw and permitting of the shackle being removed laterally.

It will be observed that the outer end of the movable jaw does not project outwardly beyond the outer side of the fixed jaw, and the bifurcated portion of the latter effectively braces the movable jaw against strain.

In using the present device for hoisting hogs and other small animals, as in Fig. 4, it is contemplated to use a pair of shackles for engagement with the respective hind legs of the animal, the handles of the shackles being connected by a chain 17 with a swiveled hook 18, connected to the middle portion of the chain. By this arrangement the weight of the animal is distributed equally upon two legs instead of one leg, whereby bruising and injuring of the joints are in a great measure obviated.

It will be observedthat the slidable handle completely incloses the outer end of the shank of the fixed jaw and forms the sole means whereby the shackle may be manipulated and the sole portion by which the device may be suspended, thereby bringing the weight of the suspended body upon the movable jaw to insure the closing of the latter against the fixed jaw, thus effectually preventing the m ovable jaw from becoming loose.

What is claimed is 1. A shackle comprising a tubular shank provided atits outer end with a hook-shaped fixed jaw arranged to engage the leg of an animal, the transversely-disposed movable jaw pivoted between its ends atone side of the tn bular shank and having its outer arm cooperating with the said fixed jaw, the inner arm or portion of the movable jaw being extended into the shank, and ahandle arranged at the inner end of the tubular shank and provided with a stem extending into the tubular shank and terminating short of the outer ends of the same and connected with the inner arm or portion of the movablejaw, substantially as described.

2. A shackle, comprising a longitudinallybifurcated fixed jaw, having atubular shank, provided with a longitudinal slot, a movable jaw pivoted intermediate of its ends within the slot, there being ratchet-teeth upon the shank, a slidable handle having its inner end made hollow and telescopically receiving the shank, a stem projected longitudinally from the hollow end of the handle and working in the tubular shank, the outer end of the stem having a transverse opening receiving the inner end of the movable jaw, whereby the latter and the stem are operatively connected, and a spring-actuated ratchet device carried by the handle and in operative relation to the ratchet-teeth of the shank.

3. A shackle, comprising a relatively-fixed tubular shank, which is open at one end, and is provided at its opposite end with a fixed laterally-projected jaw, there being a longitudinal slot formed in the inner side of the shank, a movable jaw cooperating with the fixed jaw, projected in opposite directions through the slot in the shank, and pivoted intermediate of its ends upon opposite walls of the slot, and a handle, having a reduced longitudinal stem slidably projected into the open end of the tubular shank and operatively connected to the inner end of the pivotal jaw, the inner end of the handle having a marginal socket surrounding the base of the stem and telescopically receiving the adjacent end portion of the shank.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS E. JONES.

Witnesses:

N. ORAMER, D. Courts.

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